Today, with most of us owning a smartphone that lets us post on social media (媒体) wherever and whenever we want, oversharing has become harder to avoid. But the fact is that most of people usually don’t realize when they’re oversharing. We can get more facts from the following charts that were shown by a US survey.
| ChartⅠ | ChartⅡ |
| SOURCE: Ford Motor survey of 1010 U.S. adults
| SOURCE AARP survey of 1, 000 adults 18 and older
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Many Chinese people also like to post on social media, mainly including the photos of different food and the words of wisdom.
While sharing is indeed a good thing, oversharing, especially on social media platforms, is not good. For one thing, it may put people’s personal information at risk, because what they mean to share with only a small group of friends is actually broadcast to the whole world. Besides, oversharing online can influence people’s normal communication in real life, said Chen Canrui, a psychologist at South China Normal University. That is because oversharing makes deep communication less, which hurts strong social relationship, especially friendships. So it is very necessary for people to use social media properly.
【小题1】According to Chart Ⅰ, how many U.S. adults think their friends overshare on social media?【小题2】What percent of Americans post on social media once or more a day?
【小题3】What do Chinese mainly post on social media?
【小题4】Please translate the underlined sentence into Chinese.
【小题5】Why can oversharing online influence people’s real communication?
【小题6】As a student, what do you usually share on social media? Why?
